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Siqure 1: Fiscal Year 2001 Spending on RDT&E, $41.3 Billion Figure 2: Annual Spending by the Services on Science and Technology ties, the service laboratories, industries, interagency efforts, and international coalition coop- Turning to evolutionary acquisition itself, Ferguson showed the definitions from two Air Force documents: Figure 5: DoD! 5000.2 Acquisition Process: from Idea to Fielding The full scope of the 5000 acquisition process extends from initial notion all the way to mul- tiple successive fieldings of the program. The concept of technology readiness, as defined by a Government Accounting Office report [GAO 99], is utilized to test technologies to prepare them for actual acquisition. As shown in Figure 5 the technology is hatched somewhere and adopted as an S&T project to try it out. If successful there, it becomes the subject of ATD, ACTD (Advanced [Concept] Technology Demonstration), or JWE (Joint Warfare Exercise). Somewhere in this phase a decision is reached to actually acquire a system embodying the technology. It is at the Acquisition Program phase that evolutionary acquisition commences. The key concept is that the acquisition occurs in a sequence of blocks, with each block culminating in fielding some fraction of the program’s capability. That capability is sketched in the contract for the block, but is probably not spelled out completely in order to give scope for the deci- sions of the spiral development risk-management team. Indeed, Ferguson noted that e@ Eevanlitinnary Araiiettian imniiac ayvalitioqnary reqiraments concept is that the acquisition occurs in a sequence of blocks, with each block culminating in Figure 8: Project Initiation: Current Leviathan and Proposed Dolphin 3.4 Stakeholder Teamwork Is Essential After discussing the roles and responsibilities of these various stakeholders, the work group decided that the Program Management and Delivery community was by far the most impor- tant to focus on in developing a plan for organizational commitment and institutionalization. This decision bears some elaboration. First, this choice does not imply that the other stake- holder communities are somehow unimportant. They are very important, however, we can- not do everything at once. Because fundamentally, EA/SD is about program strategies, it makes sense to focus on the community most directly responsible for program success. Sec- ond, in a sense, the policy and oversight community is already committed to EA/SD, having just issued the new 5000 policies. And so constructing an elaborate program to convince thi community of the merits of EA/SD would seem to be superfluous, a classic case of preachin to the choir. Third and most importantly, this choice reflects the work group’s desire to be practical and realistic. As one workshop participant put it, to be truly successful, EA/SD “must get into the very DNA of program managers.” If those responsible for program man- agement and delivery don’t adopt EA/SD, it doesn’t matter if the others do— operationalization will fail. tiqure 10: The Forces of Nature Guard the Apex of Process Achievement This table lists the recommendations made by the work groups sorted according to class. For the full text of the recommendations, see the report above or the version on the Web site: chtto://www.sei.cmu.edu/cbs/spiral2000/ september/recommendations-sept00.xls
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